Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 3, 1877

No. 347.
Mr. Farman to Mr. Fish.

Agency and Consulate-General of the United States in Egypt,
Cairo, February 13, 1877. (Received March 10.)

No. 103.]

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your dispatch No. 36, dated January 16, 1877, by which I am instructed to inform you by telegraph whether the proposition for the nomination by the Government of the United States of a substitute in the parquet of the new tribunals of Egypt, to be accepted by the Egyptian Government and at once appointed judge of the court of première instance, is still open. As the proposition had not been withdrawn I considered it as open, but for greater certainty I communicated with Chérif Pasha both verbally and by letter, and received his reply, dated February 12, 1877, a copy of which I inclose.

The Government of the Khedive still desires the nomination of the substitute of the Government of the United States on the conditions mentioned in its dispatch of August 3, 1876. In accordance with instructions I sent you last night the following dispatch:

Secretary of State, Washington:

A substitute should soon be nominated, the position being still open.

FARMAN.

The substitutes of Italy, Germany, Austria Hungary, and Great Britain have already been promoted to judges of the court of première instance.

There is some disagreement as to conditions with France, so that the French substitute has not yet been promoted, and Russia is in the same condition as the United States, having never made a nomination.

I am, &c.,

E. E. FARMAN,
United States Agent and Consul-General.

[Inclosure.—Translation.]

Chérif Pasha to Mr. Farman.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
Cairo, February 12, 1877.

Mr. Agent and Consul-General: By dispatch of the 10th of February, you did me the honor to inform me that the Hon. Secretary of State at Washington asks whether any change has been made in the propositions contained in my communication of the 3d of August, 1876, relative to the augmentation of the number of judges of the new tribunals.

I hasten to reply, Mr. Agent and Consul-General, that the necessities of the judicial service remaining the same, the Government of the Khédive has not changed its propositions, and that it is ready to carry them out, subject to the conditions in my aforementioned communications of the, 3d of August, 1876, and under the final reserves therein expressed.

Be pleased, Mr. Agent and Consul-General, to accept the assurance of my high consideration.

CHÉRIF.